(Here’s an article from our archive, which we use each time we do a Free Trial Lesson Offer. Things will be back to normal next week, when the promotion is over.) Buondì. Time’s running out to book your free online Italian lesson via Skype or Zoom! This week’s offer ends on Sunday night, so jump to […]
Nov. 2023 FREE Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer reminder!
Buondì. Today, just a quick reminder about the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer over at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which began on Monday. Just over forty people have already signed up, in just the first two days, mostly for Italian, but also Spanish, French and German The offer lasts until Sunday night and the plan is to […]
FREE Trial Lesson Offer / 6 Half-Price ‘Ebooks of the Week’
Buondì. As mentioned on Friday, this week we have the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson Offer! In our online shop, there are various online Italian lesson options. Choose between packages of five, ten, twenty or thirty lessons, for example, and so benefit from greater discounts. But it’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, […]
FTLO coming next week / What are your language learning tips?
Buondì. Here’s a copy/paste from an article in February: +++ Next week NativeSpeakerTeachers.com has it’s twice-yearly Free Trial Lesson Offer, a chance for anyone who hasn’t yet tried a free thirty-minute online lesson with a native speaker teacher to do so. For years, the one thing that was missing from my own language learning was […]
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Buondì. Honorary mentions today go to my dad, who’s been in hospital and is now at home recovering, and club member Harold who wrote to object to my rhetorical question: “How can someone NOT know how to download, open, and SAVE a .pdf file?” Having a relative in hospital is alarming at the best of […]
Alla scoperta dell’informatica!
Buondì. A couple of years ago, before artificial intelligence made freelance writers redundant, I was getting a lot of pitches from young people who were keen to write articles, ebooks, basically anything, as long as it was paid. And I always pay. I responded to one or two of them (that’s how I found some […]
Dusty corners to explore, and a public service announcement!
Buondì. The final days of my ‘break’: Monday I’ll be back to the usual routine, plugging a new ebook and taxiing baby Bug around Bologna. Today though, a quick whizz around some dusty corners of the club website which you might have forgotten, or never have explored. What’s left to tell you about? In approximate […]
How not to be one of ‘those’ learners…
Buondì. We slept the whole night through! Probably ten hours or more. But I dreamt of small animals… There’s a blue sky here in south-west England, and the streets are busy with half-term families wearing rubber boots and wind-proof jackets. Today we’re headed for Truro, to look at the shops and eat pasties. Probably while […]
Worn out. Taking a (sort of) break.
Buondì. While driving Bug to the petting zoo this morning, after a particularly disrupted night of not-much-sleep, I had an epiphany. Today I’m supposed to be preparing an ‘eBook of the Week’ offer, then writing an interesting and entertaining article, and then packing for a trip we’re taking this week. During the trip I’d then […]
Do grammar ‘rules’ make you nauseous, too?
Buondì. After more than three weeks of waking up multiple times each night to microwave Bug’s three-hourly meals, you’ll understand that my energy levels are low, and that work has piled up to an absurd height. Today I have to start clearing a path through it, before the weekend when the petting zoo is closed, […]